Honda NSR250 Bucket....(GL145 engine)

[Crazy Steve]

Hey Guys and Girls,

My Friend Mark recently finished his Bucket that hes been building for some time....

While he was over the other weekend I took some photos of it..

Enjoy....

Crazy Steve.

[nudemetalz]

Looking good !!!!

[Crazy Steve]

More...............

Crazy Steve.

[Crazy Steve]

Mark rebuilt this one toooooo..NSR250 with NSR250 engine....

Crazy Steve..

[Buckets4Me]

obessive compoulsive disorder comes to mind


Nice bikes
the green one looks even better in real life havent seen the other one

[Sully60]

Tu meke!

+10

[skidMark]

To shiny for buckets =(

Hu wntz a shyknee bukket

[Sully60]

To shiny for buckets =(

Hu wntz a shyknee bukket

What ever!

If more people took pride in the appearance of their buckets we'd be in a better position to leverage sponsors and get better events going.

It also shows pride in your racing machine and that your prepared to put in the work to make it the best you can.

Big props to your mate Mark, Crazy Steve, pass on my encouragement to do more!

[wbks]

Wouldn't sponsored rides = certain riders with vastly superior bikes = Un fair racing, which means cheap goes out the door if you want to be competitive = point of bucket racing gone?

[Sully60]

Wouldn't sponsored rides = certain riders with vastly superior bikes = Un fair racing, which means cheap goes out the door if you want to be competitive = point of bucket racing gone?

...Sigh.

Anyone can get sponsorship and sponsorship isn't always money that gets put into developing bikes.
Now that Number One also races our the team costs have basically doubled, if I was to go to some local business looking for a small amount of support and got it it would help immensely.
Do you think they'd want to sponsor me if our bikes looked like complete shitheaps? Would you put your company's logo on a bike that you though of as rough and untidy?

And it's not just riders, promoters/clubs need help too. Have a look at the 2007 (couldn't find the 08 one quickly enough) battle of the buckets poster, good example of presentation. Need I say more?

[wbks]

Yea thats fine and I'm not trying to deem what people should do, I was just assuming a bit of money would be going into buying things too expensive for the average bucket racer but I guess it wouldn't get to that level anyway, just free oil, gear discounts, stuff like that... As you were...

[speedpro]

That green bucket is waaaaaaay good looking in real life. It's immaculate with great detail.

You just know it's going to result in tears though.

[Buckets4Me]

you cant get a faster Bucket just because you have money
you still need to know what to do to make it go realy fast

you can spend money on polishing the crank and pushrods
and it wont do a dam thing for you
you could grind out the inlet till it flowed mountains of air
still nothing but a boat anchor
ceramic coat everything and the girlfriend still nothing but a slower bike
you could put the biggest carb on
or or or or
but if you cant find someone that knows the know then will you ever get a 50 going any faster than F5Dave ( Dont think so )
or a 100 faster than Nigel
you could hire a decent Rider that would help more than anything els
but where is the fun in that


Nice nsr pitty about the engine needs to be a 2 stroke lol then it would be a REALY nice bike not just a nice bike

more nice Buckets please

ps I have know a lot of nice well painted buckets that slowly year after year get more dents scratches and Mod. They dont stay looking all nice and pretty for long sadly.

[Sideways Sam]

Yeah, I was talking to him at the weekend. Nice bike!!!!! Pity I had to pass it a coupe of times

I've got no problem with well presented bikes, wish I had time to make mine look like that...........

Doesn't have to result in tears either, There are a few guys there that I've never seen dump their bikes..........

Also, in my opinion the Auckland crowd could do with a bit of encouragement when it comes to bike prep. Our bikes look rather dowdy compared to what I've seen from The South Island and has anybody checked out the Hawkes Bay bikes???? they're nice!!! I'm thinkin' of going down there for a weekend to see if they go as good as they look.......

[wbks]

I get your point but I was thinking more along the lines of a current year rs125 rolling chassis (not just an older one), tuned suspension etc. As for 50's, I'm keen to watch them next meet, I'm quite surprised they can actually haul full sized adults up to 100 or so you guys recon...